It's about time this happened... Of course it's a Liberal Conspiracy to aid terrorist and weaken the Presidency, or somethin' like that!

With both Congress and the media unwilling or unable to challenge President Bush’s unprecendented accumulation of power, we should be grateful that the American Bar Association has had the courage to step into the breach.

A bipartisan task force appointed by ABA President David Greco took on the issue of the so-called signing statements Pres. Bush issues after he signs bills into law. In many of the over 800 statements issued by the president — a number that dwarfs the 600 or so such statements issued by all of his predecessors in the past 217 years, combined — the president has indicated that he intended to break the very the laws he just signed.

The ABA task force ruled that this countermanding of laws passed by Congress is unconstitutional.

With the media focused on the Israeli-Hezbollah war and the Iraqi Civil War, the ABA findings have gotten very little attention.

Bottom line... Time to put a stop to the using the Constitution as a doormat...

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